19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: …
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)The scope of these verses is to silence the fears, and encourage the faith, of the servants of God in their distresses. Perhaps it is intended, in the first place, for the support of God’s Israel, in captivity; but all that faithfully serve God through patience and comfort of this scripture may have hope . And it is addressed to Israel as a single person, that it might the more easily and readily…
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